Speaker wire is it science or psychology

702, its interesting what you say about not being able to hear simultaneously. I have not been unsuccessful in discerning between different amps or wire in rudimentary blind testing, ( no scientific aspirations here in this case) what I needed however, were longer stretches of music (female sopranos, solo violins, solo cello for voicing or big orchestral renderings for width and depth of soundstage and layering or certain string quartets for resolution and speed). In listening, I would pinpoint aural clues for myself at specific points of the score. Once I had this, it was fairly easy to differentiate between various DUTs. What I needed was familiar music, scores which I knew inside out and preferably also had heard already live.

Garfish - If you trust only your ears and not your brain, you wind up with many hundreds of dollars wasted on exotic line cords, speaker wire, IC's with arrows on them, distribution boxes that the manufacturers brag about not having anything in them, conditioners that exercise electrons, audio bricks to put on your preamp .......... just how goofy do things have to get before you begin to wonder.

Steve..... ears are connected to the brain, but obviously not with everybody.... and if Garfish trusts what he hears, he, like the most of us, is having fun and he's learning something new everyday. No stale repetitions of fundamentalist RHUBARB (REDkiwi, I just love that word! )here!

Detlof - I think I remember you posting something about copper wire that can have asymetrical conduction properties. Something about crystals in the wire. It was related to why cables have arrows on them.

Hook your cables up backwards and see how they sound. I bet they will sound terrible to you.

Hm... Hmm, hmmm. Hm-hm.